Karl Berry wrote: > It would be nice if there was a symbolic permission meaning `all > modes'. Say `a', for the sake of argument. It would useful > in a command like chmod ug+rw,o-a to take away all permissions from > `other'. o-rwxst, besides being verbose, feels like there might be some > other kind of permission in the future or on some other system. > > Another way to achieve the same result would be to allow numeric modes, > at least after =, as in chmod ug+rw,o=0 (which gets `invalid mode > string').
Hmm... How about this? touch foo ll foo -rw-r--r-- 1 bob bob 0 May 27 23:07 foo chmod ug+rw,o= foo ll foo -rw-rw---- 1 bob bob 0 May 27 23:07 foo Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
